Celiac Disease

If you are a person of a certain age, you most likely recall school cafeteria food as the butt of numerous jokes from your adolescence.

Meatloaf was likely to be a gelatinous brown mass and canned green beans were boiled into submission, served at the consistency of mush. Even the much-anticipated pizza was likely to be frozen fare heated up.

How times have changed. On Monday, The Nutrition Group of Danville, gave East Penn School Board a presentation on some of the fresh fruits and vegetables they offer students at the districts’ school cafeterias, how they specially prepare meals for those with food allergies and their efforts to buy locally grown produce. Then they served...

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